U.S. Fish & Wildlife ServiceThe Motus Wildlife Tracking System is an international collaborative research network of automated radio-telemetry receiving stations. Motus, which is Latin for movement, tracks insects, birds, bats, and other animals over the landscape, using radio technology. Motus is but one of several technologies used to track birds. Another system, Argos, is based on sending signals to receiving stations on orbiting satellites, which then transmit them back to earth. Birds wearing these transmitters bounce highly accurate locations of their whereabouts off of receivers on satellites and down to researchers for decoding. However, these Argos transmitters require larger batteries, and are heavier than Motus transmitters. About 4500 birds are tracked every month with Argos. It's just one of the tools that biologists, conservationists, and others use to monitor wildlife. This story map shares the past and potential of motus through maps, video, audio, pictures, and graphics.ArcGIS FeatureLayerhttps://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/b7d2b792be164ad2b4cafca7ba8bd43d_0engU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open DataPublicMOTUS Receiver Deployments [United States]Web servicesUnited StatesLast Modified: 2020-02-25